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Financial accounting from the perspective of the person who will be using the data. This book shows the accountant how to effectively record, summarize, and report financial information. It discusses accounting in a manufacturing environment and further expands on the complexities of accrual based a... More

This lively anc comprehensive book charts the developments in the history of western astronomy from prehistoric times, when farmers used the stars to predict the start of the seasons, through the merging of Babylonian and Greek astronomy, and on to the eighteeth-and nineteenth-century applications o... More

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics. This is an essential text for students of the history o... More

This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the ... More